Nokia‘s The Way We Live Next conference has been going down in Espoo this week, with the company’s execs and industry figureheads looking forward to envision the phone – and mobile services – of the future, and in a brief video, the Finnish phone maker’s shown off a video of what it thinks the handsets of 2015 will look like. The answer? Two modular screens, connected by the cloud!
November, 2009
Rise and shine! Time to catch up quick with all the latest gadget news that’s got out while you’ve been asleep. Grab a bowl, pull up a chair and tuck in to all the headlines right here in techie breakie!
The Sonos Zoneplayer S5 is the multi-room audio juggler’s first foray into an all-in-one base station, with speakers built in to cut the price of set-up. But at £349, cheap is still a relative term here. Can Sonos handle sound like it does streaming? Read on and find out in our full Sonos Zoneplayer S5 review.
Since we reported rafts of issues Snow Leopard-packing Macs having trouble with mobile broadband, we’ve received a slew of comments about your experiences. And the complaints aren’t just about networks, with dongle designer Huawei coming in for some stern criticism.
Modern Warfare 2 finally went on sale today, and while it’s already sparked controversy for its graphic scenes of terrorism, an even more realistic sequel is in the works, Modern Warfare 3. That’s according to the wags at The Onion at least, who say it’ll boast ultra realistic scenes of soldiers standing around waiting for the green light to attack, and doing hours of mind numbing paperwork. Read on for the video!
The Dell Inspiron Zino HD is not your average budget nettop. Unlike the Acer Aspire Revos and Eee Boxes of the titchy PC world, it’s a fully fledged desktop machine, packing in some stonking specs, and a little something called Blu-ray to go with that HDMI port, and it’s on sale in the UK now! Want to know where you can get one? Read on.
The Ricoh GXR, just announced today, is a radical rethink of just how a camera should be built. By shoving the sensor inside the lens kit, Ricoh’s allowed for a camera body that stays up to date every time a new lens/sensor clip-on comes out, but that’s not all. With the Ricoh GXR, you can add attach other bolt ons too, and Ricoh’s just unveiled a few prototypes of what those might be!
Kindle for PC launched today, letting you swap books not just between your e-reader and your iPhone, but your computer too. Is it the iTunes of books we were hoping for? Or just a fussy proprietary app we could do without? Take a look in our preview!